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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:31:53 -0600
Once upon a time, JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com> said:
Why not open up the market for telco wiring and just see what happens? There might be 5 or perhaps even 10 players who try to enter the market, but there won't be 50 - it simply won't make financial sense for additional players to try to enter the market after a certain number of players are already in.
Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty. There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of all the wires on the poles.
And there certainly won't be 50 all trying to service the same neighborhood.
And there's the other half of the problem. Without franchise agreements that require (mostly) universal service, you'd get 50 companies trying to serve the richest neighborhoods in town, and none, or maybe one high-priced vendor, serving the poorer areas.
And if a competing water service thought they could do better than the incumbent, why not let them put in a competing water project?
There is limited space, and most people don't want the road and their yard being dug up because their neighbor wants different water service. Also, the more people digging, the more breaks you'll have in existing services (and if there are fibers from 10 different companies cut, they'll be pointing fingers for blame and all trying to get in the hole at the same time to fix theirs first). -- Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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